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Compatible with PeerTube. Unfortunately there is no login support but you can search, watch and subscribe to videos in the same feed with youtube and whatever else.
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For those who aren’t in the loop, if you like to use OSS, this isn’t strictly open source. It is source available.
No thanks. The 4 freedoms are essential. Everybody using this is going to be shocked when they implement ads and/or sell it.
Its license is more of forbidding anyone to use it for commercial purpose. People still can fork it for non-commercial purpose.
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md
It’s not ideal but I won’t blame them. Huge chunk of casual consumer FOSS are distrubuted without permission on mobile, slapping ads and other monetization. Notably, almost all Minecraft clone on Android are based Minetest/Luanti.
The GPL already forbids distributing without the source code being available. People who break GPL will break this license too, and they will have even less resources to fight it. I wish people would stop writing their own licenses and just get behind the GPL. There’s already tons of lawyers familiar with it.
So, can’t fork if they throw users under the bus?
You can fork it, but not for commercial purposes.
also “you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.” 🤡
FUTO’s license meets neither the free software definition nor the open source definition.
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md
interesting, I haven’t seen a licence like that before. I wonder why they didn’t go with good ole GPL, as it prevents restrictive commercial use of software quite well.
Their logic is that they provide paid software similar to closed source companies, but give you the source code with it.
Would this license create complication in case someone wants to fork the project ? Usually, this is the safety of using open source software, should the original dev team go rouge, a team of blue dev might assemble and fork the project to at least prevent regression of capabilities.
I’ve tried pretty hard to make the switch to grayjay but there’s always some snag for me. Sometimes grayjay related, other times service related. I hope the project continues to grow. for the moment I’ll be sticking with newpipe and freetube.
the other futo projects are pretty neat, too. the android keyboard works really well.
I love their FUTO voice keyboard input for android
Thank you for the recommendation, I just switched everything to FUTO. I’m hoping it well grow to be as accurate as SwiftKey used to be years back…
For my main keyboard I use heliboard which I found more similar to SwiftKey. But FUTO has a local voice input which can be coupled to it and is really handy for typing long messages. The main FUTO keyboard supposedly isnt bad either.
And it’s an official flatpak! I’ve been waiting for anything better than that portable junk before.
Awesome, adding to my current arsenal of alternative clients alongside FreeTube and NewPipe. One less chance for YouTube to force me onto their webpage.
NewPipe stopped work if you use a VPN, LibreTube instances all gone, Invidious few instances are working but not 100% of time, GrayJay most of time asks for login because Google indicates it is a bot
Dark times to watch Youtube
IT IS MY VPN WTFFFF. I though id fucked up my pihole triggered some bot prevention on yt via np. yooooooo omg thnx for this comment!
I’m currently trying out Pinchflat on my NAS .
Freetube sadly blocks me a lot and having the videos stored locally removes a lot of hassle.
GrayJay most of time asks for login because Google indicates it is a bot
Whenever it does that, I just open the Google login page and start clicking links (like the privacy policy, FAQ, reset password, etc) to “prove” that I’m human. That usually works at least for one video, if not more.
Just wondering if this can do something that VLC cannot
I’ll admit I only have a shallow familiarity with VLC, but I’d be surprised if it was capable of doing these things:
- Subscribe to Youtube channels (plus a bunch of other platforms)
- Get ‘related’ videos
- Browse and search individual channels
I’ve never even thought of VLC as a streaming media player.
VLC is my go-to for streaming local IP camera video.
local IP camera video.
What’s that?
Dead link
Search for IP camera, Amazon or wherever you might buy electronics. If the link is dead you probably have Amazon blocked.
Holy moly! Size of this app on fdroid is 414.4MB. Why is that?
Still need something for iOS. Currently I am using the DuckDuckGo browser app with the build in YouTube proxy player.
We got like a dozen Android YT apps. You should probably just switch.
Jokes on you, I have a second phone with revanced. I switched to iOS after being on Android from version 2-11. It just would be nice to have it also on the iPhone. Or I quit YouTube, by the time it should be full with AI videos….
Brave works well on iOS for this use case.
Ugh, bad news
Why bad?
More people using these shitty package managers means more people will download malware
Unlike apt, this doesn’t require signatures
Fair.
Say No to Flatpaks on YOUR Install!
Why?
Because everyone has a problem with something Linux that they think makes them cool.
I don’t like flatpaks because they never feel cohesive visually on my system.
Sounds like you (or your distro) setup a portal wrong, they should read your theme configs and settings the same as any native application
I too feel an unarticulated "ick*, there is something dangerous, along with not really open sourxe license. Can’t quite put my finger on it. Some potential loss of autonomy.
Flatpak is a fully open source technology. You’re thinking of Snaps.
